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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.
Sigil of Penemue. Penemue (deriv. from Heb.פְּנִימִי, penimi — "the inside") is a watcher in Enochian lore. [1] He is a curer of stupidity in man, mentioned in Bereshith Rabba. [1]
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
Illustration of the Argand lamp, which appears in Les meirvelles de la science, published in 1867 by Louis Figuier. Francois-Pierre-Amédée Argand was born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva, the ninth of ten children.
Group of ancient lamps (Hellenistic and Roman) Simple contemporary Indian clay oil lamp during Diwali Antique bronze oil lamp with the "Chi Rho", a Christian symbol (replica) Sukunda oil lamp of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Oil lamp of Korea Modern oil lamp of Germany with flat wick
Functional schematic showing the Williams tubes in green. Tube C holds the current instruction and its address; A is the accumulator; M is used to hold the multiplicand and the multiplier for a multiply operation; and B contains the index registers, used to modify instructions.
LAMP (software bundle) (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) Library Access to Music Project, a free music library for MIT students; Localized Aviation MOS Program (LAMP), a model output statistics system used in weather prediction
William Murdoch was born in Bello Mill near Old Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland, the third of seven children and the first son to survive beyond infancy.A son of John Murdoch, a former Hanoverian artillery gunner and a Millwright and tenant of Bello Mill on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, he was educated until the age of ten at the Old Cumnock Kirk School before attending Auchinleck ...